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HOSE BRIDGE. No. 340,611. Patented Apr. 27, 1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE- JOSEPH S. PEDEN, OF NEV YORK, N. Y.,ASSIGNOR OF ONE-FOURTH TO JEAN M. ELDREDGE, OF SAME PLACE.

HOSE-BRIDGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 340,611, dated April27, 1886.

Application filed January 16, 1886. Serial No. 188,760. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JosEPH S. PEDEN, a citizen of the United States,residing at New York city, in the county of New York and State of NewYork, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Hose-Bridges,of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to a device to be car:

IO ried in street or other cars, to be placed over fire-hose crossingthe traclgto serve as a track, so as to permit the car to pass over thehose without injury thereto, after which the said device is removed andput back into the car 1 for future use.

The invention consists in means for readily fastening such hosebridgc tothe track, substantiall y as hereinafter particularly set forth andclaimed.

In the accompanying drawings, in the several figures of which like partsare similarly designated, Figure 1 is a perspective view of myhose-bridge applied. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same detached,and on a larger scale. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the same, and Fig. 4 isa vertical section in the plane of line 000:, Fig. 2.

,The rails a a of the track may be of any well-known pattern. Thehosc-bridge b to be used upon such will have a flange, c, correspondingwith the tread of the rail, and the body of the bridge will be recessedbeneath said flange, so as to fit over and upon the rails, and atransverse recess, 01, will be made in the 5 bridge, so as to enable itto fit over the hose laid across a railroad-track, and at the same timepermit the bridge to fit the track. My preferred form of bridgc,being soconstructed, is applied to the rails of a track crossed by hose bybinding it thereto by the cam-lever e, 0 pivoted in the side of thebridge. This camlever afi'ords a very simple, convenient, andeasily-operated device for use in applying the bridges to a track,andadmits of the equipping of each car with bridges, which may be appliedand removed by the driver, conductor,or other person in charge of thecar or train, for the convenience of that car or train only, the objectbeing to insure passage for each car of, say, several different lines,passing over the same track without depending upon one another.

The canrlever acts as the moving member 'of a clamp, the fixed member ofwhich is the side of the bridge, and serves to clamp or bind the bridgeto the rail and permit the passage of the car over it and the hosesafely.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The hose-bridge constructed substantially as set forth, and providedwith the cam-lever c, fulcrumed in the side of the bridge, and therebyadapted to bind against a railroadtrack rail to clamp the bridgethereon, sub stantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 12th day ofJanuary,A. D. 1886.

JOSEPH S. PEDEN.

Witnesses:

ARTHUR G. WEBB, ERNEST O. WEBB.

